Partitioning, phytocommunicability and plant pieties
ANTH Anthropology Today
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
Nov 30, 2018
Pages:
8 - 12
Sources ID:
106041
Collection:
Himalayan and Tibetan Medicine
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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Just as Moroccans encounter plant parts separated from the ground on a daily basis, so too do they engage more than one model for relating to plants. Different plant partitions entice a varying array of interlocutors and interactants through sensory channels and communicability ideologies. In this article, the author introduces phytocommunicability, a process of mobilizing multiple interactional ideologies in interspecies communication. She suggests that phytocommunicative pluralism is key to understanding how plant piety is recognizable, yet unknowable.